Hevy or Heck

Holy heckie batman it's almost october that's fucked up!!

ACTIVITY CHECK
REMEMBER TO DO YOUR AC BY THE 1ST!!! If ur hiatusing say so on the hiatus tab, same thing if you're dropping! If you don't have AC but are like FUCK I HAD A BAD MONTH CAN I GET A PASS just dm me or put a comment on the hiatus tab as well!


OCTOBER SHENANIGANS
Everyone will change back to their default angel/devil/whatever forms! No more Weres~ But as the current TDM implies, it's SPOOPY season, so you can assume both Heaven and Hell have Halloween like decor everywhere (with Heaven's version being very kid friendly and dubbing it a "fall festival" lol)

But wait there's more! Abe and Lucy will be missing for the month, and replaced with two new guests~ And there will be some OPT IN dark elements to play with!

CW - BODY HORROR/SKIN PEELING
ETERNAL DAMNATION (Hell Level) - Whenever on the hell level, characters may suddenly see a flaming number over their head. The number is the number sins they've committed/number of the worst sin they've committed (this is up for player interpretation). In accordance with that number, pieces of their flesh, or even limbs or eyeballs, whatever you decide, will peel off them in a spiral like pattern. Very painful! Strangely enough, characters will find a golden thread and needle in their pocket if this happens.

What's more, if they try to collect their flesh/limbs, it will burn them! Yep someone else has to get your flesh and stitch it back to you. Unfortunately, it won't stick to you unless confess a sin. So if you lost ten chunks, welp--you better confess ten sins!! If you don't get fixed by the month's end. . .hope you enjoy dying and going to Void time out for a bit!

EATEN BY GUILT (Heaven Level) - Then on Heavenside, characters may suddenly feel a heavy weight on their chests. They may be prone to crying or even hallucinating--what? Regrets. Guilt. Someone you failed to save? Did you betray someone? Did you step on your cat's paw??? Anything goes. But someone decides to take this literally--characters will have chunks bitten out of them. This can be as dire as a bite to the stomach, or just a notch in the ear, or even a little peck. Once they've lost at least one chunk, they'll find that there's a bright red glove somewhere on their person. Hm.

Well never mind that--if they carry on like this, they will eventually be eaten alive or lose too much blood. . .until they confess to someone else what they're guilty of. Once doing so, the other person will INSTINCTIVELY KNOW. . .they need to slap the stupid out of them. This will reverse the damage. The number of slaps needed is up to the damage remaining/player interpretation.

Can you tell this is Uzumaki inspired. HAPPY UZUMAKI ON ADULT SWIM NIGHT

CW: POSSESSION:
Time for a Purge - ALTERNATIVELY if body horror isn't your thing, both angels AND devils can opt in to be possessed by ~something~. The characters are still very much themselves, just with an overwhelming urge to purify devils or corrupt angels. . .by brutally murdering them! Characters will believe it's 100% for their own good, and they'll be cleansed when they've been born again :)

If you wanna really go wild and fucking do everything go for it, I can't stop you lol.

For those that want no part of this, don't worry, there will be some gen, fun spoopy prompts too!

MID MONTH MAYHEM
MID-MONTH I'll be honest I can't decide if it'll be a shit post OR a boss battle or maybe some combination of both!! I DON'T KNOW MAN I'M MAKING THIS UP AS I GO.


Anyway the initial post will go up on Oct 1st, so see you then!! Feel free to use this post to plot with folks if need be!


WAIT, THERE'S MORE??
Oh right before I forget--starting November 1st, you can app up to three characters!! Wowie. Just know your limits, it's okay to drop if you need to. I may raise the cap more eventually but right now, easing in and seeing how this does.

OKAY THATS ALL FIRST

ANNOUNCES!!

ACTIVITY CHECK
HOLY FUCK MA IT'S AUGUST 25TH DO YOUR AC. Remember, test drive meme threads are valid for AC, along with backtags from prior months and inbox threads! Literally as long as you're actually playing I generally don't care where your AC comes from. If you're on hiatus, be sure to update the hiatus tab!

SEPTEMBER: WEREWOLF MONTHS DEETS
On September 1st or 2nd depending on attention span and/or how lazy I feel, the gen post for September will go up!! And as said, it is WEREWOLF MONTH. What does this mean for you/your characters??

-Abe/Lucy will have done some CELESTIAL MOON SHENANIGANS and characters will be moonbeamed into Were-creatures of your choice!
-The duration of this is completely up to player preference! Maybe they're only a Were for a few days, or maybe it's the whole month!! Likewise, if you don't want to be part of this furry nonsense, just say the moonbeam missed you. Look at those sheep they're fucking idiots. You can completely avoid it.
-Any kind of were-creature is allowed, and you may give your characters temporary boons/instincts that correlate to the critter you pick, as well keeping any abilities your characters already have!
-Additionally there will be a PVP option for folks, where you can get in a skirmish with others!! More details on that when the actual post goes up!
-There will also be several positive CR building prompts, plus the requisite mid month post which I haven't decided on yet but will hopefully be appealing!!

SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THAT and ask any questions in this post!

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER TDM
A NEW TEST DRIVE MEME IS UP FOR YOUR USE! This will be the TDM for Sept/Oct, but you're still free to use the summer one too if you prefer, idc.

ALRIGHT THAT'S IT THANK U

WHAT THE HECKIE IT'S AUGUST WHAT'S GOING ON

AUGUST GEN POST

A new general mingle is up for August! No real gimmick this month aside from the shoulder angels/devils! And it's as it says--your character will shrink and poof on to someone's shoulder until you give them some advice on a decision, no matter how bad said advice is. You can play with this however you like! Don't want to listen to your shoulder buddy so they stay tiny?? Horrible. Valid.

As for the Heaven prompt, angels can be booped temporarily into different forms for August! You can just be a NORMAL ASS CAT or a normal human or anything else! And since these ICly should only last 1-2 days, you can do multiple different things if you'd like, go wild, I do not care!


NEW FACES???
Along with using this post to plot if that's your thing, feel free to introduce yourselves if you trickled in during July! Or don't! I'm not your boss!

ACTIVITY CHECK

GOOD JOB MOST OF YOU PASSED A/C. I've contacted folks who haven't! Plz remember to use the drop/hiatus tab if you need to go MIA for a while! The A/C column has been cleared and is ready to input August A/C!

UPCOMING SHENANIGANS

AUGUST - NO PLANS, CONSIDER THIS A CATCH UP/CR MAKING MONTH UR ON UR OWN. I will still do a silly cr building post mid month tho probably.

SEPTEMBER - BY POPULAR DEMAND AND ALSO YALL BEING FURRIES, September will be Werewolf Month!! And by Werewolf I mean any kind of Were, you don't gotta stick to just wolves. More details to come on the how and why later!

OCTOBER - STILL IRONING IT OUT BUT FOR SPOOKY MONTH there will be a slightly more ~serious~ theme for folks to play with and hopefully have reasons to stab each other for fun, who knows! Stay tuned.


ANYTHING ELSE?

Gawd I hope not I'm tired. ANYWAY ASK QUESTIONS HERE IF YA HAVE EM THANKS

HELLO LOVELIES SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

ACTIVITY CHECK IS DUE!!!
YEAH ITS THE END OF JUNE WHAT THE FUCK. Remember to comment with your activity on the taken list here!! And use the labeled tab if you were on hiatus or something.

A NEW TEST DRIVE MEME HAS BEEN POST!
IT IS HERE! IT'S KINDA GENERIC. BUT IT'S SURE THERE. BUT WHYST SO GENERIC?

APPS WILL NOW ALWAYS (mostly) BE OPEN!!
That's right apps are open indefinitely! I'll close them if I know I'll be away for a while, but otherwise, apps are open for both new and returning characters! Please give me up to a week to approve any apps though usually it might be sooner. Who knows! Not me! Who doesn't have adhd on this platform.

THERE IS NO THEME FOR JULY!
That's right, no theme event this month!! I figure people will still be backtagging their June stuff, and July would be a good time for folks to further their own arcs and such! I'll still be posting a couple general mingle posts with some prompts, as well as two key optional events:

-The HEAVEN MENTORSHIP program, as started by Harley/Chickenmod!! She is finalizing pair ups, so if you do NOT want your character participating, please comment here to opt out! Same goes if there's any characters for any reason you don't want to be paired up with! COMMENTS IN THIS POST ARE SCREENED.

Of course this is all optional, so even if you get paired up with someone you can just like. Not play lol. But still, this is good for informational purposes!! If you have already DM'd us to opt out, you're good!

-I'll also be making Kaito post an optional forced CR building game/post at some point so be on the look out for that. Spoilers it'll probably involve handcuffs and truth effects.

FUTURE THEMED MONTHS???
I have some in mind but want to hear from YOU. If you have any suggestions for themed months, plop them at this comment!


OKAY THAT'S IT thank u for enjoying heckie game!!

APPS ARE BEING PROCESSED!
Apps are being processed today!! Apps will remain open til about 11pm EST and/or whenever I wake up after that.

THE IC GEN POST FOR JUNE IS UP!! HAVE AT. Also you can introduce yourselves ooc in this post if you want. Or don't! Do what you want!

Date TBD for future app openings HOWEVER for my sanity am contemplating that in July apps will just be open indefinitely and I will approve them when I get to em!! WHO KNOWS more info on this later when I make up my mind! Prospective players can continue using last month's Test Drive Meme til I figure this out.

IT'S TIME FOR UTENA MONTH!!!1
What is Utena about? SEVERAL THINGS, WHICH I WILL NOT EXPLAIN. Have an incomprehensible AMV (CW: some adjacent DV/domestic violence in the beginning via slapping). Anyway it doesn't matter, FEATURES FOR THIS MONTH:

-FLOWERS AND OUTFITS. Characters may or may not find most (if not all) their wardrobe swapped with general shoujo style outfits. Maybe you have a really stylish school uniform or you're a whole ass Rose Bride. Are you 30 or 40? TOO BAD MAYBE YOU HAVE SHOUJO BOOTY SHORTS NOW. You may also be prone to several tropes, such as your shirt flying open dramatically, sparkles, and posing on top of your car for no reason. Anyway that's all up to you. More importantly are the FLOWERS.

No matter what you're wearing, special outfit or your normal duds, you may have a FLOWER pinned to your chest! Roses of any color are typical, but it can be any kind of flower you want!! If the flowers are damaged/petals fall in anyway, you'll be compelled to abruptly divulge a deep secret or insecurity or whatever to someone. You might be able to keep it in briefly but you'll need to word vomit at someone eventually!!

But would could damage these flowers you ask (aside from general assholes and/or you obliviously plucking the petals yourself??)

-SHADOWS. Two Dimensional shadows of characters characters will be lurking around at your discretion! These shadows are made from negative traits of your characters, and will be compelled to attack you or your CR. Maybe it's out of jealousy, rage, spite, or maybe your shadow is just a dick who knows!! They may or may not talk, that's up to you! Shadows can look like your character's silhouettes or can be something more monstrous idc. If you're a normie and are like 'what can my shadow do to me lol' WELL THEY ALL HAVE SHADOW SWORDS, and they *can* kill you. Or pluck at your flower.

And the only way to permanently destroy a shadow is. . .

-HEART WEAPONS SEE CLIP. No you do not need to say an incantation but you can if you want to be Extra about it.

As Abe and Lucy will explain, by bonding with someone (ie: just talking with them), you can extract a HEART WEAPON of your choice from your chest all dramatically. You can use said weapon, or your CR/the person who pulls it out can, idc. For the purpose of this event, this weapon can be anything. Yes if you want to pull a rose covered bazooka out of your friend's chest as a symbolic gesture of how big your dick is for the, that's kosher.

While shadows can be fought without weapons, only Heart Weapons will put them down permanently, so they will be BACK if you don't strike them down!

-Finally, there's the DUELING ARENA as described on the post. There's nothing dangerous about it but characters can be compelled to hash out their issues and duel or talk or fight there (any kind of fight, it doesn't have to be with weapons or an actual physical fight), it's just there for Aesthetic if character's want a dramatic place to do shit.


Of course per usual, all this is 100% optional and you can go about your normal Heaven or Hell experience. Or do both!!!

Any questions ask them here and happy pride!!

HELLO LOVELY HECKERS we've got some announcements!!

ACTIVITY POLICY
SO after crunching numbers (read: just casually observing shit) I've noticed Heck Game has attracted a lot of new folks not really used to this style of game!! So to help ease people into the environment, we are lowering the Activity requirement to only TEN COMMENTS. Do I think this is too low? A BIT. But also: I don't want people to stress about AC if they are having fun!! SO TEN IT IS.

Some notes!
-AC should be ten comments from anywhere within the month, from the 1st-30th/31st!
-TDM threads can count for AC!
-Standalone threads should still be at least 5 comments! (ie a thread where you jumped someone's top level or post)
-HOWEVER you can also link entire posts you are hosting/running for AC regardless of the thread count!
-Same goes for top levels! If you've made a top level and have a lot going on, you can just link the whole thread/top level instead of counting individual threads regardless of their comment count.
-That said, I reserve the right to pull you aside/waggle my finger at you if you're consistently linking top levels full of 2 comment threads for AC consistently. I WANT PEOPLE TO PLAY, NOT SQUAT.
-The rules/faq have been updated to reflect this!

The new AC policy is in effect for April! The taken list has been updated so you can put in your AC for April now! I'm also saving the list weekly so in case it gets borked again we have a back up!!

TEST DRIVE MEME AND APPS
There won't be a new TDM this month but if someone wants to test out characters feel free to use the old one! Time/space doesn't exist, it's easter 24/7. That said apps will open again on April 25th. The app page has been updated to reflect this!

APRIL MAY JUNE HAPPENINGS
Did you know those are the names of Daisy Duck's nieces?? Wack.

Anyway either tomorrow or like, sometime later this week idk I'll have a mid month effect post for people to putter around in if you choose, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, starting in May, we will have themed months.

Themed months just means there will be a background element you can play with should you wish; it's 100% opt in and you can stop playing with it or ignore it to your heart's content! Currently in the works are:
MAY - MERMAID MONTH
JUNE - UTENA MONTH

What do these mean?? Stay tuned!! If you have some themes you'd like to see feel free to comment with them as well! And as always, if you have to ask "ash can i do this funny thing???' the answer is 99.9% going to be yes go for it.

ANYWAY THAT'S ALL FOR NOW THANK YOU FOR ENJOYING HECKIE GAME. Feel free to leave questions below or in the FAQ!

HELLO ALL THANK YOU!! Apps are being processed! Here's our FIRST ACTUAL OFFICIAL OOC POST!! Introduce yourselves (or...reintroduce yourselves) here! Or don't! We're all old and full of anxiety! IF PEOPLE WANT TO FIND YOU, THEY WILL.

Anyway the first official in game post will go up Thursday night with an icebreaker type mingle, and after that, you're free, post yourselves, meet CR, get weird, I don't care!! Please remember though:

1) If you have any special notes or DNIs/Do Not Wants, please make sure these are visible and easy to find for other players! Same goes for any Opt Out/Opt In posts you may have!

2) Also make sure you have SOME kind of profile on your journal so any other players can at least take a quick glance at it to know your character's deal. It doesn't have to be super detailed or anything!

3) We'll be attempting to do two posts a month in general; just silly prompts for building CR! You're also encouraged to do these kinds of posts. Sky's the limit!!

4) Remember to join the comms!! The IC comm is now visible to members only!

Also again be sure to follow plurk for updates!! Thank you all again for the interest in our silly game ♥

HELLO ALL, THE TEST DRIVE MEME IS STILL GOING!! FEEL FREE TO HOP IN
• You do not need to join the comms to play in it!
• Duplicates are welcome just for the TDM!
• Remember TDM =/= auto acceptance into the game later!
• OOC MEET AND GREET IS HERE


SOME UPDATES THO:

1) Apps will be open Friday Feb 23rd at 9am EST. Any apps posted before that time will be deleted! Here is the app post! The taken list will also be updated prior to this to reflect characters who were already claimed via EARLY ACCESS.

2) If you did TDM stuff and end up being accepted, if you want--ALL THAT IS CANON. Abe and Lucy will explain away any duplicates and people disappearing as 'an expedited paperwork exception process.' SUCKS THAT YALL STILL HERE THO. If you do NOT want any of those threads to be canon feel free to wipe your character as a clean slate.

3) Questions!! Continue to ask questions here, but here are a few that have popped up!

Can we have a more complicated (or furry) DEMON or HEAVEN FORM for special occasions/when they're angry/that can be turned on and off?? - Yes!! Play with this however you see fit.

Can we get new powers from our new forms? Yes AND no! Basically:

-If it's just for ~flavor/vibes~ or totally harmless, yes! Example: having a no-swear zone aura, smelling like, coffee or something, your feet/shoes leaving fiery prints, animal instincts, aesthetic fire on body parts, etc, all that's okay. Also as established, if you have wings you can fly with them now.

-If you already have a canon power but are translating it to your new form-also okay! Example: A character who already can make fireballs can now also make them from their demon wings, or a character who does dbz lasers decides they can only do so from their halo now. Like that!

-Giving BRAND NEW offensive powers you never had before - BZZT not okay! If you want to get some new powers you're gonna have to make contracts bb.

This has been added to the FAQ! You should read the faq! If we catch anyone power gaming people we reserve the right to thread hop and have Abe/Lucy be like 'YOU DON'T HAVE THE PAPERWORK FOR THIS' and you will get a house arrest power nerf bracelet.

4) SPEAKING OF, THERE IS NOW A PAGE ON CONTRACTS. Please read for more clarification. I will add it navigation at like. some point.

5) Just as a general 'what to expect' for when the game opens proper in March, basically the plan is to always do two 'mingle/event' posts (one for intros and such and one for middle of the month stuff), which will always have silly CR-building prompts. Between those tho you will be free to post yourselves and do whatever the fuck people do in rp.

That's it for now and thank you folks for the positive response!!!